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Your Mac ships with a folder full of powerful, free utilities that most users have never deliberately opened. In this show, Lee works through the macOS Utilities folder from A to Z, shining a light on twelve tools that have been quietly sitting on your Mac all along. He covers everything from diagnosing a slow system and managing audio devices, to picking colours from your screen, graphing equations in 2D and 3D, and giving your Mac a voice from the command line.

Some of these utilities are decades old, one is brand new in macOS Tahoe 26, and all of them are completely free, already living in your Applications' Utilities folder, and waiting for you to discover them. By the end of this video you'll have a whole new appreciation for what's been hiding in plain sight on your Mac.

Your iPhone and Apple Watch are packed with features designed to help in a genuine emergency — but they only work if you've set them up in advance. In this video, Lee walks you through several essential safety features: Medical ID, Emergency SOS, Fall Detection, Heart Rate alerts with ECG, and Check In. This gives you everything you need to make sure your devices are ready when it matters most.

Five minutes of setup today could make a real difference when you need it most.

Where iCloud and Finder give you basic, all-or-nothing backup and sync, the iMazing 3 utility puts you firmly in control. It lets you create unlimited local backup snapshots, browse and extract exactly the data you need, and transfer files freely between your device and your Mac, all without touching iCloud and with your data staying entirely on your machine.

In this video Lee takes a deep look at what iMazing brings to the table. He looks at backups and iMazing's snapshot approach which gives you a Time Machine-like history of your device. You learn how to extract and export your messages, WhatsApp conversations, contacts, calendars, notes, voicemails, call history, and Safari data. Lee also covers photo and media transfers, battery health monitoring, and iMazing Mini, the companion app that keeps your devices backed up automatically in the background.

PopChar from Ergonis Software is a Mac utility that gives you instant access to every character in every font installed on your Mac, all from a single click on a small "P" in the menu bar. Whether you need currency symbols, accented letters, arrows, mathematical notation, or typographic punctuation, PopChar puts them all at your fingertips without hunting through menus or memorising unusual keyboard shortcuts.

In this tutorial, Lee walks through everything you need to get up and running with PopChar. This includes inserting your first character, searching the full Unicode library, building a collection of favourites, as well as using the HTML insertion mode for web work. He also covers two power user features: finding which of your installed fonts support a specific character, and the Shape Finder for identifying characters you can see but can't name.

PopChar is available via Setapp. At the time of this recording, you can also purchase directly from the developer with a one-time payment of $39.99 for the current major version, or take up an annual subscription for $19.99.

In this second screencast on Claude, we dive deeper into the more powerful and more customizable features that can really help you level up your productivity. We'll be looking at Claude Skills and show you how to build your own, briefly touch on MCP (model context protocol) to show you how connecting to other tools can give your Claude new abilities, and show you how you can schedule tasks that use these skills and MCP connections to get things done while you're away from your computer. We'll even show you how to use Claude Code to vibe code a complete web app from scratch without knowing any code.

Pages has two document modes, and while Word Processing gets all the attention, Page Layout is where the real design power lives. In this tip, Lee shows you how to switch from Word Processing to Page Layout mode, turning the Pages canvas into a free-form design surface where every element, whether it's a text box, image, or shape, can be placed exactly where you want it. Using a missing dog poster as a real-world example, Lee walks through building a complete design from scratch, covering text boxes, character spacing, image placement, and shape layering. You also learn about grouping objects and using the Arrange controls to stack everything in the right order.

MindSpace is an incredibly powerful mind mapping app that imports maps from Markdown, OPML, TXT, FreeMind, iThoughts, and more. It works across macOS, iOS, and iPadOS and has Family Sharing support.

The interface is intuitive on all platforms and supports many common keyboard shortcuts to add and move nodes around, and even fold and reveal nodes at different levels.

You can define relationships between nodes with arrows of different formats, as well as create summaries of a collection of nodes with curly brackets. You can add images, web links, and comments to nodes, and much more.

MindSpace has all of the other mind mapping capabilities you expect, like the ability to work in outline view, fabulous search tools, and the ability set a focus node to get rid of distractions. At the time of recording, the subscription pricing starts at a minuscule dollar US per month, or you can get a lifetime license for $13!

Building on the folder automation foundations laid in shows 1528 and 1548, Lee brings you three new automations demonstrating just how versatile Shortcuts can be in macOS 26 (Tahoe). The first two work as a pair, both watching dedicated drop folders and automatically compressing incoming files into date-stamped .zip archives. The third moves away from folder triggers entirely, using the External Drive trigger to automatically back up a chosen folder every time a specific drive is connected to your Mac.

Together these three automations cover two of the most common file management headaches Mac users face: keeping archives tidy without cluttering up your folders, and making sure backups actually happen consistently. Open Shortcuts and follow along with Lee and build these useful shortcuts with him!

In Part 2 of our Pages 2026 series, Lee picks up where show 1571 left off and takes you deeper into understanding what Pages can do. You learn how to work with images — inserting, styling, cropping, and removing backgrounds — as well as shapes, text boxes, and lists. Lee covers page setup including margins, columns, and paper size. He then moves on to sections, showing how to control headers, footers, and page numbering independently across different parts of your document. The video also covers building a Table of Contents, adding bookmarks and footnotes, and using the Track Changes and Comments feature for document collaboration.

Whether you're writing reports, collaborating with colleagues, or creating designed documents from scratch, this episode gives you the tools to get the most out of Pages on your Mac.

Whilst diagnosing a problem recently with some USB devices on his machine, Lee happened across a wonderful macOS utility called Hubble. Using this application he was able to get an instant diagram of the topology of his connected devices alongside hints and tips on how to resolve the errors.

In this video, Lee shows you how to set the application up and walks through the interface so you understand exactly what Hubble is trying to tell you, and how it can help you solve these types of issues.

The macOS Dock is something you use dozens of times every day, but how much thought have you given to setting it up properly? In this episode, Lee walks you through customising the Dock, from the essential options to a handful of hidden tips and tricks.

He then introduces DockDoor, a free, open-source app that adds one of the most-requested missing features on the Mac: live window previews right from your Dock! Hover over any Dock icon and instantly see every open window for that app, switch between them with a click, and even close or minimise windows without leaving your current app.

DockDoor goes well beyond basic previews. An enhanced Option+Tab window switcher brings Windows-style app switching with live thumbnails, and you can optionally replace the native macOS App Switcher with a richer version, too. There's a lot to discover with DockDoor, so definitely worth a look.

Paste has been Lee's clipboard manager of choice for a while now and the developers have released two new features that really elevate Paste as a front-runner in its class.

In this video, Lee shows you how to search your clipboard history using Power Search, which allows you to filter searches based on application, item type, date, and more. You can also go back to a clipboard item entry in your 'timeline' of pasted items using another new feature, Jump To History, allowing you to quickly see other items you copied at around the same time.

Paste is available on the Mac App Store and as part of a Setapp subscription. For current pricing, see the link below.

Pages is Apple's long-standing and free word processor and page layout program, available on every Mac, iPad, and iPhone; a far more capable app than many people realise. In this first of a 2-part series, Lee gets you comfortable and confident with the essentials, so you can start producing great-looking documents straight away. He covers everything from launching Pages for the first time, understanding the two types of document, as well as a detailed tour of the interface. You also learn about paragraph styles, headers and footers, saving, exporting to Word and PDF, as well as the key settings worth adjusting before you do anything else.

Whether you're switching from Windows, are new to the Mac, or have had Pages sitting in your Applications folder for years without ever opening it, this video is for you.

If you watched our original Supercharge tip video, you'll know just how much this little utility can do to smooth out the rough edges of macOS. Well, Sindre Sorhus has been busy (very busy) and in this follow-up, Lee walks you through a whole raft of new features that have arrived since that first video was released.

From keeping your Mac awake on demand and muting your microphone with a single keystroke, to isolating your front window in an instant and capturing text from anywhere on screen, there's plenty here that will find a spot into your daily workflow.

Finder also gets some serious attention with this update, giving you even more context menu options for checking file dates, comparing identical files, stripping image metadata, and more. Whether you caught the original video or you're coming to Supercharge for the first time, this one is well worth your time.

Claude is one of the most powerful AI assistants around, but you might only be using a small part of what it can really do. In this episode, Mike gives you a tour of the features that matter most: Projects, Artifacts, and Connectors. You also meet the Cowork agent, built around practical, real-world examples you can adapt, and available in the Claude Mac desktop app (subscription required).

Whether you’ve been curious about Claude but weren’t sure where to begin, or have been using it for a while and suspect there’s more to discover, this video will give you a clearer picture and a solid head start.

After looking in detail at how Superwhisper works on macOS, it's only right that its iOS counterpart should get some attention. Being able to capture text accurately on the move is a wonderful ability to have. Whilst not as full-featured as the Mac version, Superwhisper on iOS allows you to capture text both in-app and via the dedicated keyboard.

In this video, Lee walks you through the basics, and show you how to configure a shortcut to allow you to easily specify the mode you want to use with Superwhisper on iOS.

In Part 1 of this double-header, you learned the basics of getting started with Superwhisper. In this video, Lee takes it further by showing you the two remaining modes, Super and Meeting. You also learn how to create your own modes that can be configured to transcribe your dictated text in any number of ways.

By combining customised AI prompts with high-powered voice models, Superwhisper can output your words any way you like and allow you to build some powerful workflows.

Spotlight in macOS Tahoe 26 isn't just for finding files anymore. With Spotlight Actions, you can send messages, fire off emails, capture reminders, and trigger your favourite apps, all from a single keystroke.

Lee demonstrates in this video the most useful actions across both Apple's native apps as well as some popular third-party ones like OmniFocus and Drafts.

Lee has been looking at taking the plunge with a dictation application for a while now. However, with an above average typing speed, coupled with a distrust in the quality of the dictation apps available, he's never pulled the trigger. That is, until now.

While trying to find efficiencies in his workflows and make more time available during the day, he gave Superwhisper a try and the results are quite something. At its core, it can transcribe dictated text with unnerving accuracy due the available models. And when combined with AI processing, all of a sudden you're able to work a lot smarter, with Superwhisper doing a lot of the heavy lifting.

In this first of a two-part series, Lee looks into the origins of dictation and how it can help us, as well as getting started with the core functionality of Superwhisper. He closes off Part 1 by looking at some of the built-in modes you can enable, allowing you to dictate text knowing it will be transcribed in a format suitable for email, notes, messaging, and more.

When Freeform was released in December 2022, it was to little fanfare as it was completely unexpected and seen as a clear example of a first version of an application. Nice foundations, but not what you would call feature-rich.

Since that initial release, Freeform has received some of its most significant updates yet — including Scenes for organising large boards, Snap to Grid for cleaner layouts, and Tables arriving in iOS 26.2. And with iOS 26.4, Freeform has taken its biggest leap forward, gaining access to Apple Creator Studio's advanced AI image generation and a premium Content Hub, Users who dismissed Freeform early are giving it a second look — and those who stuck with it are finding a genuinely capable creative workspace where there was once just a blank canvas.

In this video, Lee walks you through some of the key updates that have landed since that first release.